Pages, and the blocks they are made of
Two sentences hold the whole model:
Your stuff lives in collections. Your pages arrange it.
A collection is a kind of thing you have several of — projects, case studies, clients, jobs, testimonials. You edit those in their own screens. A page is an arrangement, built by stacking blocks.
Adding a page
Pages → Add a page. Give it a name and a web address — the bit after your domain. Keep it short and lower case with hyphens: about, studio, for-agencies.
A few addresses are already used by the site itself and will be refused with an explanation. That is not a fault.
The page stays a draft until you publish. Drafts are invisible to visitors, and you can look at one at its real address with a banner across the top so you never mistake it for the live site.
If what you want is the one-page kind of site — a photograph, a line about you, a few links and your social row — Add a links page makes that page at /links, already built from ordinary blocks. Everything in it is yours to edit, reorder or delete straight away.
The blocks
Add block opens a palette grouped by what each one is for.
To introduce yourself
- Hero — the opening statement. A headline, a line of context, up to two buttons.
- Text — headings and paragraphs. The general-purpose one.
- Picture and text — a photograph beside a paragraph, and the picture can go on either side. This is the "about me" shape.
- Quote — one sentence, set large.
To show work
- Image, Gallery, Video — a picture, a set of pictures, or a YouTube or Vimeo link.
- Social post — an Instagram post or reel, a Behance project, or a Substack subscribe box. Nothing loads from any of them until a visitor asks to see it.
- Your work — the one that pays off. It shows projects or case studies you have already entered. Choose "featured only" and "first four" and the page follows your records: update a project and every page showing it updates too.
- Your writing — the essays or notes you have published, in the order you chose.
- Clients — the logos you have added.
To back it up
- Figures — a few numbers with captions.
- Cards — three or four short things you type in.
- Experience, What you do, How you work, What people say — each places records you entered elsewhere.
- Questions and answers — the things people ask before they write to you. Each one opens and closes.
To get a reply
- Contact form — a real one. Messages arrive in your inbox in the admin.
- What you offer — what you take on and what it costs.
- Something to download — a CV, a rate card, a press kit. Any file in your library.
- Newsletter sign-up, Where else to find you, Call to action.
Utility
- Space or a line — room to breathe between two blocks.
Arranging them
Each block has Move up, Move down, Hide and Delete. Hiding keeps a block and everything in it but takes it off the live page, which is the safe way to try something.
Every block also has settings for how wide it is, how much space is around it, whether it sits on a tinted band and whether a rule runs above or below. They are choices from a list rather than numbers you type, so nothing you pick can break the layout on a phone.
When a block will not appear
Blocks that show your own records render nothing when there is nothing to show — a heading over an empty space is worse. The editor says so before you publish, because you are the one person who cannot see it: you know what you meant to put there.